On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 23:23, brian.inglis--- via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 2024-05-03 15:58, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2024-05-03 13:33, brian.inglis--- via tz wrote:
As I said, the default is for zones without rules where you could assign letters, only standard time, about 1/3 of the total, depending on what you total, to allow "%s" in the abbreviation, which would have to default to "S".
Unfortunately I also don't understand what you're saying. Are you suggesting that zic's behavior should change? or merely that zic's documentation should change?
If the former, can you give an example of how zic's behavior should differ from what it's doing now? If the latter, what wording in the documentation should change?
I am suggesting that "%s" should be allowed in zone lines, even in zones where rules and letters are not used, so should default to "S" or "%z" or something.
But why? In a zone with no rules, why would you want to use X%sX and have it expand to XSX, when XSX is shorter and simpler to use directly? Why would you want %s to default to %z when you could just use %z?